Kurdistan starts exporting crude oil independently of Baghdad
Kurdistan starts exporting crude oil independently of Baghdad
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 12:48
Translation / Baghdadiya News / .. According to the Reuters news agency, citing sources in the oil industry that the Kurdistan began exporting crude oil directly to the world oil markets via Turkey, which is the biggest challenge to Baghdad’s claim full control over Iraqi oil.
The source said that “the export of crude oil in addition to small amounts of Condensed Matter shows growing frustration with Baghdad in the region while moving toward greater Kurdistan economic independence.”
Export volumes were small but oil industry sources in the region said that the direct export is the very symbol of the time when the Kurdistan Regional Government to more financial independence from Baghdad.
Has been the delivery of the first shipment of crude oil by truck to the Turkish port of Mersin on the Mediterranean. The head of Turkish company Genel Energy Mohammed for “the Kurdistan Regional Government has given us the ear exporting crude oil from the Taq Taq field.”
Control of oil is the heart of the conflict between the central government and the autonomous region where Baghdad insists that it alone has the constitutional right to export oil. In fresh disagreements KRG suspended oil shipments through the Turkish pipeline passing through the region during the past month.
The Kurdistan Regional Government has begun to export its crude light and intense to world markets since last October by truck via Turkish ports where it is sold through an intermediary but Kurdistan She now crude oil extracted from the Taq Taq field and the runway in London within stake Genl Energie Turkish.
Shipping source said that a new shipment of heavy crude Offered for sale through the presentation of an imminent and sources believe in the power industry that about 15 thousand barrels up to the Taurus station in Turkey from the Tor Mor field day. Finished / 21
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